Greg Mottola Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

  Greg Mottola

  Writing, Youth, Intimidated

• I talked about the summer of 1985, when I worked at an amusement park on Long Island, the kind of place where someone would pull a knife on you if they wanted a better prize than you were giving them. You found a lot of used needles beside the cotton-candy cart at the end of the night. It was a pretty white-trash, scary place. It was one in a series of terrible jobs I've had, coming from not much money and having no particularly resourceful skills. And at one point one of my friends, a writer on the show, Jenny Konner, said, "You should write about that."

  Greg Mottola

  Summer, Writing, Night

• I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself."

  Greg Mottola

  Fun, Writing, Guy

• Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the same questions and fears and unhappiness. Particularly those kinds of artists who were writing songs about exactly those things.

  Greg Mottola

  Song, Writing, Artist

• I've been co-writing a TV thing with Bryan Cranston, which we are going to find out soon if it's moving forward or not which is for Amazon.

  Greg Mottola

  Moving, Writing, Amazon

  Source: collider.com

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